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- Publication date
- 1957
- Topics
- 16mm Film, Educational Film, California, Architecture
- Publisher
- [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Hale [producer] ; [New York] : Rembrandt [distributor]
- Contributor
- Internet Archive
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 15.9G
Director-Photographer, William Hale ; Producer, Antonio M. Vellani ; Music, Thomas Cutkomp
Simon Rodilla, an Italian-American tile setter, wanted to leave his artistic mark on the world. The Watts Towers, forty-foot high spires of stone and pop bottle bits are the result
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Summary
Shows the building of the Watts Towers by an Italian immigrant, Simon Rodia.
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- The. Little community of watts clings to the outer edge of the city of Los Angeles the scattered collection of shacks trailers and weather beaten bungalows. Flattened impoverished. It is the last place on earth to look for the extraordinary or for the shadow of greatness. The people of the town that long wondered about Simon root doesn't. Simon Rodela. Tile setter by trade. The Taliban born. Americans out of a century. Builder of the defiant towers. Or or the. The power. Of the facts. And now I'm glad of that going to mine mine I know I want to do something. New something good something I'm going to do something. For thirty years a man lives alone and a house with a bad a chair. With the music in the faded symbols of the time when he was young the you there was something else in the house. The dream. Of. The. Structures. Put thirty years every day. Every moment outside his work for a living in the light in the darkness. Simon road below labored to express the dream. Broken bottles shattered tiles with a discarded the UN wanted list with a day breed of a machine written civilization he avoided. Colour and texture and vitality to the towers as they arose out of his inner. With wire mesh with concrete with a bucket. And with his two hands. Simon rode. Inch by inch the huge and complex structures that look down from their heights on the plane. As the towers became a part of the landscape the neighbour is living under their shadow were sometimes doubtful sometimes. Tolerant. Often do we'll bring. You that I've often wondered that bloody. Ruthless about what this might have been some people doing the terrible war as might have been a secret radio tower the just a work of. All record of an individual using the gentleman that made me fear I remember about almost ten years ago he would be a good going on so it's a it's a piece of autistic. And I guess we get the material here in the South. To make a pretty scenery. You can make that place famous. Relative my estimation Bonnie Domina people seem to thing a bombing. In ninety million thing about it. As only avenue and they mean. It was believed that Tokyo Rose was born here while she was Braun then ride and most likely she was born here. Simon road listen to everything that was said. Then he continued his work unchanged. Understood. Some on the paper that a wider he Dorner from month to people that they are now way of crazy and and the some people. As he was planning his Towers his mind often turn to the past he had a deep respect for men like Galileo Michelangelo Marco Polo Columbus Mark is the news. Explorer is man of stature. He hoped that in some way his work was related to their tradition. Yet he saw nothing for himself. Contempt to think of great men. And. In the direction. He was under Stracke to great devices and disasters. Radio Television radar electronics the blinding at flashed across the modern scene he went on bending steel into girl. All he wanted to do could be done with the simplest of two and with his. It began in the mind a stranger in a new country. He was on trains. But he had an urgent need for expression. The elements work together driven by a sense of dedication. And slowly the pharmacist became. The wire mesh in the concrete. The separate parts. The circles the steel embraced the supporting. The scattered objects. As designed. Why. I know that's been on learning. Now that think I need. I would. Her. Recalled from childhood may be here and the minarets and all places of worship. And the Guild. And. The cathedral. And all slow tormented and during steps toward. The builder signed his work with the imprint of. And with. A quiet cried. I had in my mind to do something big and I did. You. For. This.
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Subject: Non-Conformity
The towers are constructed of ferrocement, concrete over a wire armature. When used for homes it is very much fire proof/resistant, ideal for rebuilding
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California neighborhoods after fires. Let's do that.
The visual quality of the film is very good. However, the sound track exhibits playback speed variations. Many of the films at Archive.org exhibit this problem. Equipment maintenance/operator oversight?
Additionally, I'm no musician but the sound track music seems very reminiscent of the Twilight Zone TV show theme music? There is little on-line info about the composer. Was someone plagiarizing?
Four stars for the visual content, despite the warbling/fluttering sound track.
The visual quality of the film is very good. However, the sound track exhibits playback speed variations. Many of the films at Archive.org exhibit this problem. Equipment maintenance/operator oversight?
Additionally, I'm no musician but the sound track music seems very reminiscent of the Twilight Zone TV show theme music? There is little on-line info about the composer. Was someone plagiarizing?
Four stars for the visual content, despite the warbling/fluttering sound track.
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